{"conversationCode":"010-139","tapeNumber":10,"conversationNumber":139,"identifier":"37-wht-conversation-010-139","startDateTime":"1971-10-07T19:48:00.000Z","endDateTime":"1971-10-07T20:12:00.000Z","startDate":"7-Oct-1971","startTime":"3:48 PM","endDate":"7-Oct-1971","endTime":"4:12 PM","dateCertainty":"certain","timeCertainty":"estimated","participants":"Nixon, Richard M. (President); White House operator;","description":"On October 7, 1971, President Richard M. Nixon and the White House operator talked on the telephone at an unknown time between 3:48 pm and 4:12 pm. The White House Telephone taping system captured this recording, which is known as Conversation 010-139 of the White House Tapes.","locationCode":"WHT","recordingDevice":"White House Telephone","latitudeEstimated":38.89767,"longitudeEstimated":-77.03655,"chronCode":2,"chronRelease":"Second Chronological Release","chronReleaseDate":"26-Oct-2000","aogpRelease":null,"aogpSegment":null,"lastModified":"2015-07-27T17:04:10.235Z","findingAid":"Conversation No. 10-139\n\nDate: October 7, 1971\n\nTime: Unknown between 3:48 pm and 4:12 pm\nLocation: White House Telephone\n\nThe President talked with the White House operator.\n\n[See Conversation No. 285-44]\n\n     Request for a call to Charles W. Colson","filename":["010-139.mp3"],"tapeStart":"04:29:46","tapeEnd":"04:29:54","participantsList":["Nixon, Richard M. (President)","White House operator"],"prevCode":"010-138","nextCode":"010-140","transcript":[{"start":3.24,"end":4.18,"text":"Carlson, please."},{"start":4.2,"end":5.2,"text":"Thank you, Mr. President."}],"aiSummary":{"text":"President Nixon contacted the White House operator to request a telephone connection with Charles W. Colson. This brief administrative exchange served solely to facilitate communication between the President and his special counsel. The interaction concluded once the operator acknowledged the request to initiate the call.","topics":["Charles W. Colson","White House operations","Presidential communications"],"generatedAt":"2026-04-05T23:15:08.643Z"},"topicSlugs":["charles-w-colson","white-house-operations","presidential-communications"],"audioDurationSec":7,"audioFiles":[{"file":"010-139.mp3","bytes":175541,"durationSec":7.24,"bitrate":193855,"missing":false}],"audioIsShared":false,"audioProbedAt":"2026-09-18T02:19:22.040Z","audio":["https://nixon.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/audio/010-139.mp3"],"url":"https://www.easynixon.org/tapes/010-139","nixonLibraryUrl":"https://www.nixonlibrary.gov/white-house-tapes/10/conversation-010-139","license":"Public domain (U.S. Government work). AI-generated fields (transcript, aiSummary) are provided as-is without warranty."}